Blog posts tagged with social entrepreneurship

When your beauty brand has fans like Whole Foods and Sephora, you know you’re doing something right. When you’re able to make those beauty products in a socially impactful way, that creates jobs and improves the environment, you’re doing something extraordinary.

For Yve-Car, the CEO and co-founder of successful social enterprise Kreyol Essence, that extraordinary journey all began with a hair catastrophe.

After going to a beautician in Philadelphia in 2008 who burned her hair, Yve-Car searched high and low for black...

Blog posts tagged with social entrepreneurship

When your beauty brand has fans like Whole Foods and Sephora, you know you’re doing something right. When you’re able to make those beauty products in a socially impactful way, that creates jobs and improves the environment, you’re doing something extraordinary.

For Yve-Car, the CEO and co-founder of successful social enterprise Kreyol Essence, that extraordinary journey all began with a hair catastrophe.

After going to a beautician in Philadelphia in 2008 who burned her hair, Yve-Car searched high and low for black...

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